Euripides' PHOENISSAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

Euripides Bilingual Anthology  Studies  Euripides in Print

81 pages - You are on Page 76

Creon: Go, leave the land; thou shalt not murder son of mine. (Creon
goes out, followed by his attendants who carry with them the body
Of Menoeceus.)

Oedipus: Daughter, for this loyal spirit I thank thee.

Antigone: Were I to wed, then thou, my father, wouldst be alone in
thy exile.

Oedipus: Abide here and be happy; I will bear my own load of sorrow.

Antigone: And who shall tend thee in thy blindness, father?

Oedipus: Where fate appoints, there will I lay me down upon the ground.

Antigone: Where is now the famous Oedipus, where that famous riddle?

Oedipus: Lost for ever! one day made, and one day marred my fortune.

Previous Page / First / Next Page of Phoenissae

Euripides Home Page ||| Elpenor's Free Greek Lessons
Aeschylus ||| Sophocles

Reference address : https://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-Greece/euripides/phoenissae.asp?pg=76